Towards community based indicators for monitoring quality of life and the                 impact of industry in south Durban

Nurick, Robert; Johnson, Victoria

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“…20 It also reflects a South African predilection for corporatism, discussions between state, capital, trade unions and other organized forces that can serve to supplement or even displace normal open democratic discourse as a way of building social consensus for economic and other decision-making. 21 If the City Council in the last analysis can debate and vote on the key issues, critically it is going to be advised and influenced by processes which are now supposed to occur in fora in which those involved, including popular forces and NGOs 20 For advocates of democratic decision-making of this kind, see Hindson and Patel (1995) and Nurick and Johnson (1998). 21 On corporatism in South Africa, see Maree (1993) and Schreiner (1994).…”

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“…27 Daily News, 25 March 1999 for a good overall assessment of the prospects and significance of environmental activism on this front since apartheid days. On the other hand, activists have also stressed that there is far more space in the current climate to win particular victories than in the past (Nurick and Johnson, 1998). The SEA process may well be part of a process by which they win some gains and make some dent on the traditional business as usual processes of planning.…”

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Brown and Green in Durban: The Evolution of Environmental Policy in a Post‐Apartheid City

Freund

2001

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article concerns the politics of environmental policy as it has been evolving in the South African city of Durban. How has the end of apartheid impacted on environmental issues and concerns? Since 1994 (actually 1996 from the standpoint of local government), the transition to democracy has brought about a shift from purely green policy to the growing salience of what we may call brown issues. The article first considers the elements of what we would now denote as environmental policy under the old regime and then outlines the policy shifts in recent years. The second half of the article looks at what have emerged as the most significant policy issues with regard to the environment, the future of the South Coast Industrial Basin, the environmental concerns that arise from the construction of new housing settlements and (more briefly) debates about the future of the Bay of Natal and some of the issues at play in the development of an integrated social health policy. With South Africa's emergence from isolation, international mandates for environmental controls and planning have been formally adopted; this article argues that the actual application of policy from word to deed is another matter. Democratization has opened up debates and created a far healthier climate for the discussion of urban issues, but formal institutional and procedural changes are far from sufficient to ensure new approaches on the ground. The presence or absence of effective environmental lobbying from community organizations and of environmental champions within the bureaucracy are critical factors. The planning process in Durban, inevitably subject to immediate political pressures, is still far from achieving the more holistic ambition of integrating environmental and developmental concerns. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2001.

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Section: The Creation Of Environmental Policymentioning

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Brown and Green in Durban: The Evolution of Environmental Policy in a Post‐Apartheid City

Freund

2001

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…In particular there has been an emphasis on linking indicator design to consultation with key audiences (Nurick & Johnson, 1998). However, this stops short of seeing procedures, such as developing an indicator and subsequent monitoring, as a key element of the sets of relationships between actors in a specific context.…”

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Incorporating sustainable development concerns into an urban regeneration project: how politics can defeat procedures

Rydin¹,

Holman

Hands³

et al. 2003

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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It is often thought that new procedural arrangements can help embed sustainable development as a policy goal into policy practice. This is the hope of tools such as environmental assessment, sustainability audits and sustainability indicators. Using a case study of urban regeneration in the London Borough of Southwark, this paper critically examines these claims. It shows how sustainable development was sidelined as a policy goal during the evaluation of the Master Plan for the area, the appraisal of individual projects for funding under the Single Regeneration Budget and the development of two local sustainability indicator projects. In each case the local political circumstances were key factors in shaping policy practice and outcomes. This leads to a re-evaluation of such procedural policy tools, emphasizing the importance of local governance contexts.

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Umweltschutz als gesellschaftlicher Diskurs

Glaser

Hauter²,

Faust

et al. 2016

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Towards community based indicators for monitoring quality of life and the impact of industry in south Durban

Cited by 12 publications

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Brown and Green in Durban: The Evolution of Environmental Policy in a Post‐Apartheid City

Brown and Green in Durban: The Evolution of Environmental Policy in a Post‐Apartheid City

Incorporating sustainable development concerns into an urban regeneration project: how politics can defeat procedures

Umweltschutz als gesellschaftlicher Diskurs

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